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Definition of commute in English:

commute

verb

1no objectTravel some distance between one's home and place of work on a regular basis.

‘he commuted from Corby to Kentish Town’

‘But many Japanese suffer from the distances they commute to work.’

‘The new entrance will be welcome news for the large population of commuters now living at that end of the town, most of who are commuting on a daily basis to Dublin.’

‘In order to recreate some of the atmosphere of those ‘happy days’, I am heading off home to Suffolk this evening in order to spend the next four days commuting to Cambridge and back from Ipswich.’

‘Additionally, up to 130,000 passengers enter and leave the city by train and by air, who also commute to and from the railway station or the airport.’

‘Twenty-five years ago very few people were commuting to Galway from South Mayo on a daily basis to work.’

‘An estimated 37,000 people regularly commute to the Swindon area, of which 23,000 make the journey on a daily basis.’

‘After spending five months commuting weekly to London, she accepted a temporary post at in Birmingham and there covered regional news programmes and documentaries.’

‘A significant number of people commute daily to London, offset by commuters into Brighton and Hove from the surrounding county.’

‘We are also looking at people travelling, commuting to Dublin to ascertain the traffic flows, he said.’

‘Yes, I'm fully aware that traffic may well slow you down when commuting from place to place, especially in urban settings but leave a little earlier to take that into account.’

‘Do you commute to work or spend a lot of time travelling to meetings and conferences?’

‘If people are commuting to urban areas, we need to make sure they are participating in the communities they are living in.’

‘If people in the Bolton area stop using their cars for commuting, they can forget about switching to the railways because, even before the removal of the above mentioned trains, existing services are filled to capacity.’

‘It is just not realistic to expect urban workers to commute long distances on a daily basis to reach their place of work.’

‘He has been commuting to London on a weekly basis for four years.’

‘Anyone using ferries to commute or travel on business is going to want to cut down the time involved and will choose the new fast ferries in preference to the older slower vessels.’

‘Claire, a student radiographer who commutes regularly between Skipton and Bradford, found the trains to be very unreliable.’

‘I personally think that is an excellent idea, it cuts down players travelling and also makes commuting for supporters easier.’

‘Many people spend much of their working week travelling in cars, trains, etc. commuting to and from their places of employment.’

‘Hundreds commute on a daily basis from my constituency to the capital.’

travel to and from work, travel to and fro, travel back and forth, come and go, shuttle

2.2Replace (an annuity or other series of payments) with a single payment.

‘if he had commuted some of his pension he would have received £330,000’

‘In the case of most corporate pension plans, members can commute part of their pension for a lump sum, which may well be tax-free.’

‘The eligible termination payment once again includes circumstances where a person can commute a pension in whole or in part?’

‘The trustee claimed to be entitled to elect under the policy to commute part of the annuity for a tax free lump sum.’

‘If one commutes the pension to a lump sum, it is in general an eligible termination payment but it is not if one commutes it for the purpose of paying the surcharge.’

‘He was invalided out of the Army, his marriage broke up and he commuted some of his pension entitlement for a cash sum to settle his divorce.’

3Mathematics no object(of two operations or quantities) have a commutative relation.

‘operators which do not commute with each other’

‘In other words, simultaneous measurements can only be mutually compatible for observables corresponding to operators that commute with each other.’

‘Column 2 is a variant of the model in column 1 with percentage commuting less than 10 km as the dependent variable.’

‘It is a mathematical theory that studies topology using matrices, using operators that don't commute with each another.’

‘Formal properties of differential operators are studied in many of his contributions, in particular in his early papers he worked on commuting differential operators.’

‘In fact, we will prove the slightly stronger result that any number of commuting square matrices with complex entries have a common eigenvector.’

noun

A regular journey of some distance to and from one's place of work.

‘the daily commute’

‘Coping with traffic jams and long commutes provides daily stress.’

‘On my daily commute, I have seen so many instances of bad driving by mobile phone users, from never indicating to slewing all over the road, that it is beyond all doubt that drivers using mobile phones are a menace.’

‘We first meet Irene on a subway train during her daily commute to work.’

‘The second is the transport revolution that has made the distance that people can cover in their daily commute greater by the decade.’

‘Teachers are so eager to work there some of those who were hired willingly make a daily commute of nearly four hours to come to work.’

‘What's more, the new location meant a shorter average commute for employees.’

‘By bike, it's a 15 minute commute to the new place.’

‘My daily commute takes me through two different states, one state being much lower in price due to lower taxes on gasoline.’

‘It is not uncommon, workers said, for their daily commute to take three or four hours each way, most of it spent waiting in line for transportation.’

‘Flexible working patterns mean many live too far away from work for a daily commute - they often want accommodation from Monday to Thursday night.’

‘She also lives in a village but commutes to Piccadilly Circus daily.’

‘In the major cities 35% cited the daily commute to work as a major cause of stress with traffic jams the stress point for 48% of Leeds inhabitants.’

‘One Monday morning I set off on my daily commute to work.’

‘The newspaper have just published a piece on him, which documents a daily commute to and from work on the amazing New York Subway.’

‘Working parents often feel they have little alternative than to take the car, as they combine the school run with their daily commute.’

‘Bob, who works in marketing, wanted a shorter commute to his office.’

‘Her husband, a doctor, was tired of a lengthy commute to work.’

‘This brilliant book helped turn my daily commute on the metro into an entirely pleasurable experience.’

‘I've gone from a two-hour commute to enjoying a five-minute stroll to work.’

‘My daily commute goes through Grand Central Station.’

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘interchange (two things’)): from Latin commutare, from com- ‘altogether’ + mutare ‘to change’. commute (sense 1 of the verb) originally meant to buy and use a commutation ticket, a US term for a season ticket (because the daily fare is commuted to a single payment).